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WEST VIRGINIA. 



WISCONSIN. 



population, 266,326; average daily attendance, 

 121,700; number of teachers employed, 5,491; 

 amount of teachers' salaries, $832,961.52; whole 

 number of school-houses, 4,814 ; value of school 

 property, $2.483,528; irreducible school fund, 

 $620,011.48; general school fund, $300,431.23; 

 total cost of maintaining the schools for the 

 year, $1,293.164.98. 



The State University is reported to be prosper- 

 ous. There was an attendance of 208 students 

 during the school year 1889 -'90. The annual 

 cost to the State for its maintenance is about 

 $50,000. 



Charities. At the State Hospital for the In- 

 sane there were 879 patients on Sept. 30. For 

 the year ending on that day 233 patients were 

 admitted to the institution, 86 died, and 62 were 

 discharged as cured. The daily average was 876. 

 The regular annual expenses are about $120,000. 

 The second hospital for the insane, for which 

 buildings have been in process of construc- 

 tion, needs an appropriation of about $25,000. 



Reform School. This useful institution 

 was opened in July, and before the end of De- 

 cember had received 15 inmates. An annual 

 appropriation of $15,000 is needed for it. 



Coal. in 1880 the State produced 1,558,000 

 short tons of coal, while in 1890 the production 

 approximated 5,359,000 tons, an increase of 285 

 per cent. In 1880 comparatively no coke was 

 produced ; so small was the quantity that there 

 is no estimate. In 1888 the coke product was 

 516,981 tons; in 1889 it was 665,193 tons, and in 

 1890 it approximated 1,000,000 tons. The State 

 has advanced since 1880 from seventh to fourth 

 rank among the coal-producing States of the 

 Union, and attained to second rank in the pro- 

 duction of coke. 



Political. A Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 half of the State Senators, and all the members 

 of the House of Delegates were to be chosen at 

 the November election. On Aug. 13 a State 

 convention of the Democratic party met at 

 Grafton and nominated Judge Daniel B. Lucas 

 for the judicial office. The platform includes 

 the following : 



We favor continued efforts for ballot reform and 

 purity of elections, and we commend the Democrats 

 of our last Legislature for their united and earnest 

 efforts in favor of ballot reform, in spite of the suc- 

 cessful opposition of the Republicans. 



At the election held in this State on Nov. 6, 

 1888, great frauds were committed upon the ballot by 

 the Republican party, and in order to establish the 

 will of .a majority of the honest and legal voters at 

 said election, the expense of a contest for the office of 

 Governor was made necessary, and we commend the 

 action of our State Executive Committee in instituting 

 and carrying to a successful termination the contest 

 for that office. 



The Republican State Convention met at Mar- 

 tinsburg on Aug. 20 and nominated P. M. Rey- 

 nolds as its judicial candidate. The platform 

 discusses local issues as follows : 



We favor the adoption of such a voting system as 

 shall afford adequate protection to the elective fran- 

 chise. 



We arraign the Democracy of West Virginia for a 

 series of crimes against the liberties of the people 

 without a parallel in the history of this country. We 

 charge them with deliberately Violating the Constitu- 

 tion of the State in refusing to open and publish the 

 returns for Governor in the late election. 



We charge them with criminal disregard of the 

 wishes of the voters of this State as expressed in 

 their choice of Governor at that election, by which 

 action the rightfully and legally elected chief mac-is- 

 trate was deprived of his office, and a man who was 

 not elected and who is not the choice of the people 

 was installed in the position. And this the Demo- 

 cratic party accomplished at enormous cost to the tax 

 payers of West Virginia. 



We charge them with the attempted theft of three 

 seats in the United States House of Representatives, 

 with the aid of a subservient tool wielded by des- 

 perate political tricksters, and by means of theft and 

 bribery, infamous subterfuges, and disregard of the 

 decisions of courts and other properly constituted 

 legal bodies, certificates were awarded to three de- 

 feated candidates. 



The Prohibitionists placed a judicial candidate 

 in the field in the person of D. D. Johnson. At 

 the election, which resulted in the success of the 

 Democratic ticket, the following vote was cast : 

 Lucas, 78,534; Reynolds, 70,197; Johnson, 898. 

 Of the 13 State Senators elected, 10 were Demo- 

 crats and 3 Republicans. The 13 hold-over Sen- 

 ators were divided politically as follow : Repub- 

 licans 7, Democrats 6. The Democrats elected 

 44 members of the House of Delegates, and the 

 Republicans 21. Four Democratic members of 

 Congress were elected. 



WISCONSIN, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 29, 1848; area, 56,040 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 305,391 in 1850; 

 775,881 in 1860; 1,054.670 in 1870; 1,315,497 in 

 1880; and 1,686,880 in 1890. Capital, Madison. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, William 

 D. Hoard, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 George W. Ryland ; Secretary of State, Ernst 

 G. Timme ; Treasurer, Henry B. Harshaw ; At- 

 torney-General, Charles E. Estabrook ; Super- 

 intendent of Public Schools, Jesse B. Thayer; 

 Railroad Commissioner, Atley Peterson ; Insur- 

 ance Commissioner, Philip Cheek, Jr. ; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Orsamus Cole ; 

 Associate Justices, Harlow S. Orton, John B. 

 Cassoday, William P. Lyon, and David Taylor. 



Finances. The balance in the general fund 

 of the State treasury on Oct. 1, 1889, was $271,- 

 542.63 ; the total receipts for the year ensuing 

 were $2.195,716.13 ; the total disbursements were 

 $2.121.363.73; and there remained a balance of 

 $345,895.03 on Sept. 30, 1890. The receipts were 

 derived from the following sources : From tax- 

 es on property, $1,012,867 ; from fire and life 

 insurance companies?, $89,017.07; from railway 

 companies, $1,008,559.04; from telegraph com- 

 panies, $7,775.77; from official fees, $31,335.55; 

 from miscellaneous sources. $46,161.70. 



The treasury statement, covering the general 

 fund and all other funds for the year is as fol- 

 lows : Balance on Oct. 1, 1889, $798,800; re- 

 ceipts for the year, $3,742,936 ; disbursements, 

 $3,603,079 ; balance on Sept. 30, 1890, in all 

 funds, $938,657. Of this balance the general 

 fund, as above stated, had $345,895.03, the 

 School fund $394,777.14, the Normal School 

 fund $126,091.05, and the remainder was di- 

 vided among numerous minor funds. 



The bonded debt of the State, which was cre- 

 ated during the civil war, now consists entirely 

 of certificates of indebtedness held by the vari- 



